What happened the day before the universe was created?

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"In fact, it is more likely that for the day to arrive which proves God does exist, than for the day to come which proves God cannot exist."

Basically true of course. Do you see why?

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Well yea, it's obviously easier to prove the existence of something than the non-existence of something. If that was the original posters point though, it really holds no weight. In that case, he could replace "god" with "unicorns" or "bigfoot". I thought he was privy to some information that I wasn't aware of.

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Indeed many scientists do believe in God, but most of them would say that their believe has nothing to do with their profession. In fact, many would say that maintaining that believe is a daily challenge.

And, of course, the scientific method is to accept the possibility of any posited theory until it is disproved. So, naturally, in the absence of proof any 'good' scientist will accept that its possible that God exists.
However, scientists (or indeed anyone sane) wouldn't really believe that there are leprechauns who just happen to be very good at keeping themselves hidden just because one can't disprove it. Scientists must make pragmatic choices about which theories to take seriously - and these choices tend to be based on things like evidence in favor of the theory and how well it fits with other theories. At the moment, there is just about no _scientific_ evidence for the existence of God, and all of the accepted theories of how the Universe works point away from his/her existence, so the official line is more like

'It seems unlikely that God (or similar) exists, even though it can't be disproved. And it seems far more likely that the human condition (towit mortality and self-awareness) has created 'God-myths' to ally our deepest fears'

But to go back to the original point of the thread - the question about what happened before the Universe began was posed with the aim of pointing out that if science cannot answer this question then God must exist because science cannot answer the 'God question' either. However, this reasoning is flawed in two respects -
1. A lack of answer for any one question has absolutely no bearing on other 'unanswerable' questions.
2. Science has indeed answered the question of 'before the Universe began' - the answer being 'there is no such thing'.